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Biden campaign sees abortion rights, independent voters as key in Arizona and Nevada
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ahead of President Joe Biden making campaign stops on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada, advisers are laying out why they still place him in a better position than former President Donald Trump to win those two key battlegrounds, despite Biden’s mediocre polling in the early lead-up to the long general election fight.On a call with reporters on Monday, aides to the president’s reelection bid previewed key areas where, they say, they see Biden having the advantage -- including on abortion and in wooing more moderate and independent voters, some of whom rejected Trump during his Republican primary fight with Nikki Haley."Nevada and Arizona are states that President Biden and Democrats won in 2020 and ... Read MoreSCOTUS denies stay of sentence for ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro
joe daniel price/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on Tuesday as scheduled, after the Supreme Court on Monday denied the stay of his sentence.Navarro was ordered on March 11 to report to prison in Miami on Tuesday, to serve a four-month sentence.He was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.Navarro on Friday filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to remain out of prison as he works to overturn his conviction.In his filing to the Supreme Court, Navarro's attorney Stanley Woodward argued ... Read MoreBiden gets Netanyahu to send delegation to Washington to resolve standoff over Rafah invasion
Caroline Purser/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Israel's expected military invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza was the focus of President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call Monday -- their first in more than a month -- with the White House saying Biden is still not satisfied that Israel will do enough to prevent civilian casualties as it goes after Hamas fighters in the city.In the latest development in a standoff between Biden and Netanyahu that's gone on for weeks -- with the U.S. demanding a satisfactory "plan" from Israel -- national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Netanyahu, at Biden's request, would be sending a delegation to Washington to try to work out what he called "an alternative approach."Speaking at ... Read MoreKey GOP impeachment witness won’t attend open committee hearing, citing ‘short notice’
Phil Roeder/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Devon Archer, a key witness in House Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, will not attend a high-profile open hearing this week, citing what his attorney characterized as a "patently unreasonable" amount of time to prepare.Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer -- a former Hunter Biden business associate, revealed Monday in a letter to a top Oversight Committee investigator that the panel only contacted him on Friday in an "end-of-day email" to inquire about whether his client would attend the hearing on Wednesday, which Schwartz says "is sure to be a closely-watched public hearing that the committee has provocatively entitled 'Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden's Abuse of Public Office.'""The answer is no," Schwartz wrote to ... Read MoreWith eye on 2024 election, Biden touts executive order on women’s health research
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday that he said marks the launch of "the first-ever White House initiative of women's health research to pioneer the next generation of scientific research and discovery of women's health."The order, he said, will direct the "most comprehensive set of executive actions ever taken" to address women's health by prioritizing it across the federal government."Because it really matters. Because we are focused on supporting women together," Biden said in remarks from the East Room, where he was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and Maria Shriver, the founder of Women's Alzheimer's Movement.Women helped deliver Biden the White House in the 2020 election, and as the ... Read MoreGeorgia’s Geoff Duncan says he won’t run with No Labels against Trump
Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan now says that he will not join No Labels' potential third-party "unity" ticket in the 2024 presidential race."After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket," Duncan said in a statement to ABC News on Monday. "It was an honor to be approached, and I am grateful to all those who are engaged in good-faith efforts to offer Americans a better choice than the Trump vs. Biden re-match.""In addition to my private sector career and earning a living for my family of five, I am focused on healing and improving the Republican Party with a GOP 2.0 so we can elect ... Read MoreCongress kicks off week without deal to avert partial government shutdown
Phil Roeder/ Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Congress is beginning the week without a deal to avert a partial government shutdown by Friday's deadline -- as funding for the Department of Homeland Security trips up negotiations.The Friday deadline is for the remaining six of 12 spending bills after Congress passed the first six earlier this month -- averting a partial government shutdown in the process.This funding package will need to clear both chambers by Friday at midnight.It was widely expected that negotiators would release legislative text for a government funding package by Sunday, but they blew through that deadline, raising questions about the prospects of a shutdown. Lawmakers are in crunch time to prevent a shutdown: the House has a rule requiring ... Read MoreTrump seeks to fundraise off ‘bloodbath’ controversy: What he actually said
Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After former President Donald Trump warned, as he talked about the auto industry, that the country would face a broader "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November -- spurring countless headlines and criticism from rival Joe Biden -- Trump on Monday pushed back on the pushback and turned his defense of his comments into a fundraising appeal.Posting on his social media platform, Trump claimed that his "bloodbath" warning was "simply" about the potential challenges for auto workers if he's not back in the White House to impose tariffs on China.Trump's campaign is also capitalizing on the controversy, with a fundraising email sent on Monday insisting that his political opponents and others had "viciously" misquoted ... Read MoreTrial to begin for Milwaukee election official accused of requesting mail-in ballots for fake military members
Rep. Janel BrandtjenThe trial for a former Wisconsin election official who allegedly requested mail-in ballots for three nonexistent military voters is scheduled to begin on Monday in a Milwaukee court.Kimberly D. Zapata, 47, who served as deputy director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission, was charged in November 2022 with three misdemeanor counts of election fraud and one count of felony misconduct in public office, according to officials and a criminal complaint.She pleaded not guilty in December 2022, according to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court's docket. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.Zapata allegedly used Wisconsin's online voter-registration portal, MyVote, to request the ballots, prosecutors said in a complaint filed in November 2022. Investigators said she later admitted in ... Read MoreTrump claims attacks on migrants help ‘stir debate,’ says he will ‘soon’ announce abortion position
ABC NewsAs Donald Trump faced backlash for saying some immigrants who come to the U.S. are "not people" but "animals," the former president defended some of his divisive characterizations of people crossing the border, insisting that he has to use "certain rhetoric" to "stir debate.""It also gets people thinking about very important issues that, if you don't use certain rhetoric, if you don't use certain words, and maybe they're not very nice words, nothing will happen. That did stir debate," Trump told Fox News' Howard Kurtz in a pretaped interview that aired Sunday.Kurtz had pointed to Trump previously saying migrants who come to the country illegally are "poisoning the blood" of the country. That rhetoric echoes past dictators like Adolf ... Read MoreRep. Khanna says potential TikTok ban won’t solve the problem, calls for ‘narrowly tailored law’
ABC NewsRep. Ro Khanna said on Sunday that the TikTok bill the House of Representatives passed last week wouldn't actually protect Americans, instead pushing for other legislation that he says would better prevent foreign countries from obtaining private information.The bill in the House would force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face having the wildly popular app banned outright in the U.S. It was sparked by concerns that ByteDance could share (or be forced to share) Americans' data with the Chinese government, claims the company calls unfounded as it vigorously advocates against the new legislation.Khanna, a Democrat who represents Silicon Valley in California, voted against the bill, citing First Amendment concerns, though the legislation was approved by a broad, bipartisan ... Read MoreRep. Turner disagrees with Trump’s anti-migrant rhetoric but argues he can ‘fix’ border ‘crisis’
ABC NewsRep. Mike Turner, a top House Republican, on Sunday said he disagreed with former President Donald Trump calling some migrants "not people" and "animals" but insisted that only Trump "is going to be able to fix this crisis" at the southern border.Appearing on ABC News' "This Week," Turner placed the blame for the high rate of migration into the U.S. on President Joe Biden, who has said that he needs Congress to help him do more to address the border.But "when you talk about what's happening at the border, this is absolutely a crisis that's created by this administration," Turner argued, going on to cite warnings from the FBI about "dangerous" people entering the U.S. across the border.While the ... Read MoreTrump says there will be ‘bloodbath’ if he loses 2024 election, ramps up anti-migrant rhetoric
ABC NewsWhat was scheduled to be a guest appearance by former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno quickly turned into Trump saying there would be a "bloodbath" for the country if he doesn’t win the 2024 general election -- while also railing against the electric vehicle industry manufacturing automobiles outside the U.S. and using disparaging language to describe immigrants who are in the country illegally."We're gonna put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not gonna be able to sell those guys if I get elected," Trump said at Saturday's event while criticizing overseas manufacturing production."Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath ... Read MoreBiden-Harris raised over $53M in February for strongest month since launch: Campaign
ABC NewsThe Biden-Harris campaign said it raised more than $53 million in February -- marking its strongest month since the reelection campaign launched in April 2023.The campaign said that as of Feb. 29, it has a record $155 million in cash on hand for the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate in history at this point in the cycle. More than $331 million has been raised since April, the campaign said.The sum isn't from the campaign solely, but from Biden's larger political operation, including the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their joint filing committees."We're proud of the record-breaking fundraising machine we've built that is going toward reaching the voters about the stakes of this election -- to expanding ... Read MoreTop of page